Tag: Fossil fuel companies
How the fossil fuel industry buys goodwill
From sports to academia to the arts, fossil fuel companies are pouring money on the things we love, in an effort to “not be held accountable” for climate chaos.
Fossil fuel companies pay $192 million to extract fossil fuels from...
“It’s basically a giveaway to industry of millions of acres of the Gulf of Mexico so they can lock in production for years, at a time when we need to be shifting away from fossil fuel development.”
Fossil fuel companies are promoting ‘lower carbon,’ ‘responsibly sourced’ oil and...
The oil and gas industry is looking to capitalize off an increasingly-popular socially responsible investing wave that emphasizes the environment.
Oil industry ‘net-zero’ pledges are an attempt to delay climate action,...
Fossil fuel companies, experts say, “cannot be relied upon to decarbonize at the speed and scale needed” to tackle rising global emissions.
Fossil fuel companies and their supporters ask Supreme Court to intervene...
“I would imagine the oil companies will seek en banc [full court] review in the Ninth Circuit. If that fails they'll petition … the Supreme Court.”
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How corporations hope to eviscerate workers’ right to strike
Corporations so fear this kind of worker power that they’re asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rig the scales and help them kill future strikes before they even begin.
Can the Military-Industrial Complex be tamed?
Cutting the Pentagon's budget in half would finally force the generals to think.
‘Death sentence for women and families’: US court blocks domestic violence gun ban
The court ruled that the law prohibiting people with domestic violence restraining orders from owning guns "fails to pass constitutional muster," and that the ban is an outlier "that our ancestors never would have accepted."
Department of Veteran Affairs exceeds goal of providing safe, stable homes to veterans in...
The VA permanently housed 40,401 homeless veterans.
Nearly 14,000 Nigerian farmers and fishers sue Shell for destroying their livelihoods with oil...
Individuals and institutions from two communities have filed claims against Shell, calling on the company to clean up the devastating pollution and compensate them for its effects.